Re: RESEARCH - Risk factors for the development of hip OA

[Guest guest]

This just proves to me even more that the rheumatologists at Camino

Medical Group who wanted to blame everything wrong with me were

idiots. Sounds like all the years I spent waiting tables were more

likely to have caused the OA in my hip than my weight.

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> Rheumatology 2009 48(1):83-87; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken427

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> Risk factors for the development of hip osteoarthritis: a

> population-based prospective study

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> BMI, smoking, alcohol intake and leisure time physical activity were

> not factors which were predictive for hip OA.

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> Conclusion. Heavy physical stress at work and major musculoskeletal

> injuries are associated with an increased risk of developing

> clinically diagnosed hip OA.

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> http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/1/83

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> Not an MD

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